SYW: A Dud Album

[michelej1]

I bet the writer doesn't even remember what the album sounded like, if he ever listened to it. He just knows that it didn't sell, so that means DUD.

As for the successful tour that the article mentioned, here's a list of the top grossing 2003 tours. Translated from Spanish by Babelfish. I'm surprised that Cher is up there with the big groups:

http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr?lp...tml?cid=345166

The 50 richer artists of the 2003

The Manna boys will not be friends of Sting, as they wanted to be conceited in his day, but now have with what shutting up to the ridicules. The quartet is elbowed with the Rolling, It brushes Springsteen, and both gentlemen of Great Britain, Sir Paul McCartney and Sir Elton John in a list #. Manna occupies place 44 in the 50 musicians who more money did in the 2003, according to publishes the magazine Rolling Stone. And this time there is no Sting that clears importance.

1. The Rolling Stones, $84,1 million

In 2002, when the tour of Forty Licks began, the Rolling occupied number two in this list. What put to them in the head? Just like it managed to put to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards in the cover of the Fortune magazine: a tour that sold $212 million entrances, special in television and much publicity. More than three million people they attended the concerts.

2. Brush Springsteen, $81,7 million

Most of the rock bands they contract a promoter to be guaranteed a gain, and soon they share the total. Springsteen no. A seventy percent made sure the total gains if all the entrances were sold in each concert. In addition, its spectacle is austere, it does not use expensive special effects, and the public spent much money in merchandise.

3, Eagles, $62,9 million

The last year they demanded a guarantee of gain of $750.000 by concert, this year increased to $1 million, and the cost of its entrances raised in $20. In addition, they received an advance of $10 million by its Great package of Exitos.

4, Dixie Chicks, $39,8 million

Natalie Maines criticized to president Bush in England and a group of nationalists called to sabotage of the band and his discs. It did not work. Each one of its concerts in EU left gains of $1 million. In addition, the Chicks demanded to Sony by lack of payments of 20 million of albumes that already had sold and this year they sold 6 million more of his new album, Home.

5, Metallica, $39,1 million

6, Toby Keith, $38,7 million

7, Bon Jovi, $36,1 million

8, Shania Twain, $36,1 million

9, Simon and Garfunkel, $35,8 million

10, Cher, $33,8 million

11, Celine Dion, $33,1 million

12, Fleetwood Mac, $32,5 million

13, Robbie Williams, $32,5 million

14, Christina Eyrie, $27,9 million

15, Jennifer Lopez, $29,1 million

16, Dave Matthews, $27,3 million

17, Jimmy Buffett, $25,8 million

18. Hoist Cube, $25,7 million

19, The Beatles, $25,6 million

20, Norah Jones, $25,6 million

21, Justin Timberlake, $24,7 million

22, Elton John, $24,6 million

23, Coldplay, $23,7 million

24, Queen Latifah, $23,3 million

25, Aerosmith, $22,5 million

26. Kiss, $22,1 million

27, Kenny Chesney, $21,9 million

28, Eminem, $20,8 million

29, Yanni, $20,5 million

30, James Taylor, $20 million

31, Phish, $19,4 million

32, Dr Dre, $18,6 million
33, John Mayer, $17,1 million

34. 50 Cent, $16,9 million

35, Tim McGraw, $16,7 million

36, R. Kelly, $14,4 million

37, Matchbox Twenty, $14 million

38, P. Diddy, $13,9 million

39, Billy Joel, $13,8 million

40, Brooks and Dunn, $13,6 million

41, Network Hot Chili Peppers, $13,4 million

42, Pearl Jam, $13,4 million

43, Paul McCartney, $13,3 million

44. He flows, $12,1 million

Rolling Stone reports that the tour that Manna did by the United States in the 2003 recovered $10 million in sales.

45, The Dead, $11,4 million

46, Bill Gaither, $11,2 million

47, The Osbournes, $10,3 million

48, Trans Siberian Orchestra, $10,3 million

49, Radiohead, $10 million

50, Eros Ramazotti, $10 million